The study presents an insight into the present scenario on Indian highways including cross continental comparison with the neighbouring China as well as developed nations such as USA and Europe. The poor quality of road infrastructure coupled with heavy congestion on important national highways has led to initiation of National Highway Development Project (NHDP) was discussed in detail in the sub section background of study. The wide prevalence of delays in the implementation of highway projects under NHDP has necessitated the present study on time and cost overruns. Regression analysis was...